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Packet Analysis with Wireshark

Packet Analysis with Wireshark

By : NATH
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Packet Analysis with Wireshark

Packet Analysis with Wireshark

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By: NATH

Overview of this book

Wireshark provides a very useful way to decode an RFC and examine it. The packet captures displayed in Wireshark give you an insight into the security and flaws of different protocols, which will help you perform the security research and protocol debugging. The book starts by introducing you to various packet analyzers and helping you find out which one best suits your needs. You will learn how to use the command line and the Wireshark GUI to capture packets by employing filters. Moving on, you will acquire knowledge about TCP/IP communication and its use cases. You will then get an understanding of the SSL/TLS flow with Wireshark and tackle the associated problems with it. Next, you will perform analysis on application-related protocols. We follow this with some best practices to analyze wireless traffic. By the end of the book, you will have developed the skills needed for you to identify packets for malicious attacks, intrusions, and other malware attacks.
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Scanning


In this section, we will go over the basics of vulnerability scanning and verify what is happening when the host scan is performed with the help of Wireshark.

Vulnerability scanning

Host discovery, port scanning, and OS detection are part of vulnerability scanning. During this process, vulnerabilities are identified and addressed with a proper mitigation plan by the security auditor. For example:

  • The security auditor scans hosts to check that only allowed ports are open to the external world

  • The hacker scans the ports to find out which services are up and running, for example during this host scan process if the DB ports are open to the outside world then the DB system is compromised for attacks.

Open the host_scan.pcap file in Wireshark; the sample capture shows how the external client is scanning the ports:

During this process, a SYN packet is sent to the all the ports for common services on each host, such as DNS, LDAP, HTTP and many more. If we get the ACK from the host, the host...

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